[Scottish] mail server issues

[Chris Binnie]

On 25/04/2008, Roland Ward <roland.ward at penguinfactory.co.uk> wrote:
> scottish-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way of achieving this or have any other
> > suggestions? My only other alternative is to enable sendmail but
> > restrict it to only accept connections on the loopback address, however
> > this may have implications as our security teams may have asked for
> > sendmail to be disabled by default (I'm looking into this).
> >
> >
> I'd go with the perl script already mentioned or look at installing
> something like SSMTP on the server. To be honest its not a bad idea to
> install a proper MTA so you don't need to set up custom mailing for
> other monitoring scripts. Modern Sendmail shouldn't really be a security
> risk but to you are much better off with Exim or Postfix (Exim being my
> choice) and can be very simply configured to use an SMTP smarthost on
> all modern installs.
>
> Also consider using something like nagios or even just the logger
> command to send out the information to a central monitoring host.
>
>
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